Much like Mom’s meat sauce and Grandma’s brownies, chocolate chip cookies are a personal food choice — everyone has a favorite recipe and everyone believes that one to be the best. For Taylor Swift, it seems as though her pick for chocolate chip cookie recipes comes from Food Network’s own Anne Burrell.

Anne was quick to reply to Taylor, as she thanked the music star and proposed getting together in the kitchen one day. “We can make them together or anything else you want together anytime!!!!” Anne tweeted. “I’m a HUGE fan of yours!!!!”

After a three-season winning streak, Worst Cooks in America‘s Red Team coach, Anne Burrell, suffered two back-to-back losses, but just last night she reclaimed her victorious title in a nail-biting finale. “It feels like I’ve been restored to my correct position,” she told FN Dish in an exclusive interview. The veteran mentor spent seven weeks at Boot Camp with her team of recruits, detailing the beginner how-tos of the kitchen and building confidence within the novice cooks, and ultimately her mentee Kristen Redmond proved just how much she’s learned from Anne in a cook-off against the Blue Team’s Genique Freeman.

Read on below to hear more from Anne as she dishes on the finale, shares her proudest moment as a mentor and gives must-know kitchen tips for Worst Cooks fans at home.

Worst Cooks in America returns with a new season on Monday, Feb. 17 at 9pm/8c. Chefs Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay are back again to coach 14 kitchen disasters, turning them (hopefully) into culinary successes with seven weeks of Boot Camp. Every week the recruits, who will be divided into two teams, have to face two grueling challenges that aren’t necessarily related to the kitchen — certain field trips will show these amateurs where their food comes from — and one member from each team will be sent home.

At the end of Boot Camp, the title of Best Worst Cook will go to the most-improved recruit, who will win $25,000 and earn his or her mentor highly coveted bragging rights. Last season, Bobby earned his first-ever win, facing off against formerly undefeated series champ, Anne. Watch the premiere on Monday, Feb. 17 at 9pm/8c to find out which mentor will win this season.

Pumpkin pies and apple pies are a must on the Thanksgiving table — and, yes, people are starting to plan for Thanksgiving already. But sometimes it’s the unexpected dish that sparks the conversation and becomes the favorite of the night. Enter in this week’s Most Popular Pin of the Week, Anne Burrell’s Sticky Toffee Pudding. After Anne bakes the cake for this decadent and sweet dessert, she pokes holes on top so her toffee sauce can seep in throughout. Round out the dessert with a hearty scoop of vanilla ice cream or a heaping mound of whipped cream. Expect lots of requests for seconds.

On tonight’s Chef Wanted, Tapenade, a recently opened Mediterranean-influenced restaurant located in Los Angeles, needed a new chef de cuisine. Chef/owner Ressul Rassalat and general manager Chuck Craig were looking for an individual who could immediately jump into the role so that Chef Ressul could take on running the restaurant in front of the house to ensure its overall success. Anne Burrell had four candidates for the job opportunity, but only one was offered the position. FN Dish has the exclusive interview with the winning chef.

It’s Thursday, and while that means everyone is just one day away from the weekend, it also means it’s time to throw back — to an earlier period in Food Network’s history. Check back on FN Dish every Thursday to find the latest #tbt of your favorite chefs and get a retro look at their earliest days on TV.

These days Anne Burrell is living her life in extremes — kitchen extremes, that is. When she’s not working with top restaurateurs to find their next leading executive chef on Chef Wanted, she and Bobby Flay are leading teams of seemingly hopeless home cooks: the culinary recruits on Worst Cooks in America. But even in her earliest days on Food Network, Anne enjoyed competition, first appearing as Mario Batali’s sous chef on Iron Chef America in 2005. Not long after, she traveled from Kitchen Stadium to a homelike kitchen on the set of her first daytime show, Secrets of a Restaurant Chef.

During the month of October, Anne Burrell’s schedule will be filled with book signings across the country for the launch of her second cookbook, Own Your Kitchen: Recipes to Inspire & Empower. Check out her book tour schedule below to see if she’ll be near you.

Anne Burrell’s back with second helpings — in her new cookbook, Own Your Kitchen, she’s sharing recipes that she cooks when she’s home in her own kitchen. She’s designed 100 recipes that will help home cooks ace essential techniques, like how to make the perfect omelet or butterfly a chicken. She also teaches improvisation: how to work with ingredients you have on hand, and, above all, how to feel confident and stress-free when making meals.

Start building your repertoire with impressive twists on classics, like Anne’s Carbonara Frittata. You can buy Anne’s new cookbook here, or enter for a chance to win one now. To enter: Tell FN Dish which one of Anne’s recipes is your favorite in the comments (you must include the recipe URL). We’re giving five lucky, randomly selected winners each an autographed copy of the book.

On tonight’s episode of Chef Wanted, Salvatore Lupoli, owner of Salvatore’s in Boston, was looking for a new executive chef for the sixth location of his Italian restaurant chain. Anne Burrell and the Chef Wanted team brought in four candidates for the job: Chefs Gustavo Romero, Robert Lia, Michael Ceraldi and Jonathan Lemon. Two initial tests would narrow down the chefs to two finalists, who would each get to run the restaurant’s dinner service on separate nights. In the end the chef who showed the most leadership and control of his staff was offered the job of executive chef at the new Salvatore’s restaurant.

Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara, Calif., needed a new chef for The Bistro, one of its four restaurants. Executive Chef David Reardon and general manager Kathleen Cochran were looking for an executive chef worthy of cooking in the gourmet restaurant for high-end clientele. Anne Burrell and the Chef Wanted team brought in four candidates: Chefs Diana Hernandez, Earl Anthony Morris, Chris Turano and Jared Case. Two initial tests would narrow down the chefs to two finalists, who would each get to run the restaurant’s dinner service on separate nights. In the end, the decision for David and Kathleen would be a difficult one because both chefs had their share of ups and downs during dinner, but it came down to food and flavor.